which parts of this excerpt from "editha" by william dean howells denote the meaninglessness of war?
"no, girls don't; women don't, when they give their men up to their country. they think they'll come marching back, somehow, just as gay as they went, or if it's an empty sleeve, or even an empty pantaloon, it's all the more glory, and they're so much the prouder of them, poor things! "

the tears began to run down editha's face; she had not wept till then; but it was now such a relief to be understood that the tears came

"no, you didn't expect him to get killed,"